I, Manuel Roxas, President of the Philippines, hereby designate Monday, the 2^nd day of December nineteen hundred and forty-six, as Parents ™ Day.

We are embarked upon a vast task of national reconstruction. Its basis is the Filipino home. Whatever strength our Republic will develop with the years, whatever greatness it will in due course achieve, must find its source-spring in the enduring integrity of the Filipino home.

It is most appropriate, therefore, that on this day we give special thought to the father and the mother upon whom the stability of that home depends. Rooted in the wisdom of our folkways together they give what meaning there is to the Filipino home as consecrated cradle to every succeeding generation, dedicated workshop for the national character, guarded repository of the tried traditions of our race.

Let this day be observed by our citizens at large, by our churches, and by public and other schools, with appropriate ceremonials and programs in fitting homage to their unquestioned moral authority, in acknowledgment of their responsibility in sustaining the beauty and power of our native and national institutions.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.

Done at the City of Manila, this 27^th day of November, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-six, and of the Independence of the Philippines, the first.

(Sgd.) MANUEL ROXAS

President of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO

Chief of the Executive Office